70 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Plot E. — Thirty-five acres of Baldwins, blossomed as full as the 

 others, but was not sprayed witli Bordeaux. Result, a very light 

 crop and foilage very badly injured by scab. 



We are not prepared to advance the opinion that a crop can 

 always be secured by spraying, nor that a crop cannot be grown with- 

 out, for there are too many exceptions to attempt to establish any 

 such rule. We are inclined to the opinion that we have not fully 

 realized the importance of early spraying, and are convinced that 

 very few persons spray thoroughly. 



Whenever we have a period of long continued wet weather about 

 the time the apples are setting, we have noticed that there is a very 

 general complaint that " apples are not setting well," " apples are 

 falling off badly," " my apples blossomed and set full, but we had 

 twenty-one days of continuous rain and they all dropped off." Now, 

 during that twenty-one days was the most favorable time possible 

 for the growth of fungi. Did it not attack and destroy the fruit 

 and cause it to drop? The damper and more rainy the weather in 

 May and early June, the more urgent the necessity for spraying. 

 We sprayed many days in a fine drizzling rain the past season. 



No other persoLS in this vicinity sprayed at all with Bordeaux, 

 and we have no knowledge of any orchard in this vicinity which 

 bas half a crop ; many have very much less. 



We keep our orchards in clean culture. 



W. T. Mann., Barkers., Niagara Co. {see frontispiece). 



My orchard was planted about 1870 to 1873, and contains eighty- 

 eight trees, eighty-five of which are bearing. As the distance 

 between them is only twenty-five by thirty feet the orchard occupies 

 a little less than one and one-half acres. The soil varies from a 

 clay loam to a sandy loam with a clay subsoil, and has sufficient 

 irregularity of surface to afford good surface drainage. For per- 

 haps ten or twelve years the young orchard was planted with hoed 

 crops, and was then seeded and used for a number of years as a 

 meadow. During the past three or four years it has been plowed 

 and cultivated without cropping. All these years it has been 

 occasionally fertilized with light dressings of barnyard manure. 



